Zilean with Lee Sin
How to Synergize Zilean and Lee Sin
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Zilean Lee Sin Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Lee Sin
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
Advice to Understand How Lee Sin Will Play
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Zilean Lee Sin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lee Sin as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean Lee Sin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lee Sin, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Zilean sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Lee Sin. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Lee Sin helps Zilean perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zilean is paired with Lee Sin, he observes a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This change may signal that Lee Sin doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played alongside Lee Sin on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Lee Sin. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Lee Sin.
Moreover, when Zilean plays with Lee Sin on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Lee Sin does a decent job of covering Zilean in teamfights.
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Lee Sin?
There is no top synergy for Zilean that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. However, Lee Sin is a very bad ally for Zilean. By playing on the same side as Zilean, he drops their win rate by -3.2% to 47.5%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Zilean and Lee Sin that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Lee Sin has a lower difficulty than Zilean. That means Zilean players don't need to be cautious when lining up Lee Sin allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide a lot of utility for your team. Together, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by bringing Zilean and Lee Sin together, you may not be giving your team enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Lee Sin ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Zilean in order to pair well with Lee Sin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Zilean and Lee Sin synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Morellonomicon, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean used at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Lee Sin than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Zilean boasted an average win rate of 47.5% helping carry Lee Sin with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.5% winrate overall.
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